The vaccine scandal that has cost the Minister of Health, Ginés González García his job. As has been known, an undetermined number of politicians, more than 80 in a first approximation, relatives of politicians and people related to Peronism, were vaccinated outside of the general inoculation plan against COVID-19 thanks to an alleged parallel network …
One month ago, the CDC published the results of more than 20 pandemic forecasting models. Most projected that COVID-19 cases would continue to grow through February, or at least plateau. Instead, COVID-19 is in retreat in America. New daily cases have plunged, and hospitalizations are down almost 50 percent in the past month. This is not an …
On average, Chile vaccinates more than two hundred thousand people per day, since last February 3 and hopes to achieve two million inoculated before the next 72 hours. Even the deadlines that the government itself had proposed have been exceeded. In the opinion of health specialists, one of the main reasons is due to the …
How Chile achieved the most massive and efficient vaccination in Latin America Read More »
Three decades ago, a successful book but so terrifying and disturbing that nobody wanted to take to the cinema managed to scare millions of viewers around the world: The Silence of the Lambs was a film that few believed could work but that, once filmed with Very low budget and almost no expectations, it became …
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Tourists stroll along the beaches of the resort of Cancun, February 2021, in Quintana Roo (Mexico). The Mexican Caribbean, the stellar tourist region in Mexico, with the Cancun resort as its flagship, has registered a rebound in infections after the winter holidays, with as many cases in January, as in the most critical period of …
Masks and Masks, more restrictions: Photo gallery of February 8. Pademic Read More »
The idea of this series of posts is to show through photos collected from various newspapers how the Sarsars-cov-2 pandemic is affecting our societies and our lives. If you want me to publish a special photo you can send me an email to carlos at dagorret.ml (Please include a brief summary of the place and …
Light at the end of the tunnel: Pandemic – Photogallery 01/31/2021 Read More »
Transparency International recently published their latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), laid out in an eye-catching map of the world with the least corrupt nations coded in happy yellow and the most corrupt nations smeared in stigmatising red. The CPI defines corruption as “the misuse of public power for private benefit,” and draws its data …
